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762:The Modern Roleplaying Game of Ethnic Warfare in the Near Future

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<th>Designer(s)</th>
<td>Anonymous</td></tr>
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<th>Publisher</th>
<td>Anonymous</td></tr>
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<th>Publication date</th>
<td>Summer 2006</td></tr>
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<th>Genre(s)</th>
<td>Contemporary action, alternate history</td></tr>
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<td>D20 system</td></tr>
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762 is a self-published pen & paper action roleplaying game set in the United States in the year 2025. The original game was released online in four volumes in the summer of 2006. The publishers maintain no known website and copies are found only via online file sharing services. This homebrew RPG has been compared to widely-criticized RPGs with controversial and mature themes like RaHoWa and FATAL.

Volume I Core Book

The Long Night, a timeline of the world up to 2025. Character Creation & Game Mechanics that includes classes, skills, feats and combat rules.

Volume II Game Master's Guide
The Referee/Game Master section that includes a GM guide and scenario ideas. Structures & Spaces, a tactical map section.

Volume III: Voices from A Nation Shattered
Background sourcebook in the form of a New York Times supplement complete with advertisements from the year 2025.

Volume IV: Arms and Equipment
Description of weapons, vehicles and equipment.

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The foreword in each volume states that:
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"The authors remain anonymous. Anyone claiming to be an author of seven-sixty-two is misrepresenting himself. The following is the game as originally released in its entirety in Summer 2006. The authors will release no further supplements."
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Subsequent titles for the game may or may not have been released by the same author:

World on Fire: A 762 Supplement
An atlas of ongoing global conflicts, similiar to Soldier of Fortune magazine's World Sit-Rep feature.

Empire's Last Light: A 762 Supplement
More background material similar in style to Volume III.

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Gameworld Background

Following two decades of economic decline, the United States has become divided into semi-autonomous regions controlled by ethnic political and industrial blocs. The game world is described using documents and publications from that timeline. After global pandemics, devastating natural disasters, the collapse of the financial system, Islamic terror attacks, and escalating racial violence the United States is a fallen empire. Its forces are over-stretched around the world guarding strategic resources and the federal government is diplomatically isolated. Within the chaos, Christian fundamentalists, oligarchs of the ethanol industry and their hired mercenary armies form the new economic base of the United States.

Many of the US military units deployed internally to stabilize the country have become involved in local politics and have enabled most of the Midwestern states to effectively be free of federal authority. The massive internal displacement of American citizens who fled from city to city to escape nuclear terrorism and infectious diseases radically changes voting blocs, allowing black and Hispanic separatists to be elected to Congress and state governments. By 2016, the Southeast becomes the Democratic Republic of Afrikanistan, run by Black Muslim leaders and predominantly black military personnel and law enforcement. The American Southwest is contested by several Mexican elements (Reconquistist paramilitaries, drug syndicates and street gang networks) and white religious fundamentalists who call themselves Messianists. In this region (called Alta-Aztlan by Latin America and Aryan Minor by white nationalist sympathizers) the fighting is the heaviest. War crimes and atrocities not seen since the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s are frequent and unreported.

In addition, armies of contractors from the American Republican Army (defense contractor that emerged out of the armed wing of a splinter conservative party) have taken over the ethanol industry and infrastructure in the American Mid-West. A recurring theme is the nature of the white nationalist movement, its ideology and subculture. The commentary often focus on the "Talibanization of the Bible Belt" into a Christian Hezbollah or al-Qaida that carries out attacks on whoever they perceive as their enemy and at the same time operates as a parallel government providing social services and safety where the federal government has failed. Another theme is globalization and the willingness of global finance and world governments to cynically accept the ethnic separatist governments in order to maintain world trade and operational continuity, no matter what atrocities are committed. The Everton Accords of 2018 legitimizes the militia "barons" that control the bio-fuel and oil-sand industries and in effect, the white nationalist movement for the sake of regional stability.

The rest of the world is tearing itself apart following the peak oil crash. Far-right parties are in power throughout Europe. Most of the countries in the Middle East have been toppled by Islamic extremists who have devolved into countless factions. After a coup by the People's Liberation Army, China is fighting multiple brutal insurgencies in Central Asia, its Western regions and in the East Pacific to secure the world's remaining oil reserves. Latin America's economy has collapsed under its oil-dependent socialist authoritarian model and faces an emerging Pentacostal extremist uprising in its slums.

Game engine

The game engine itself is based on the D20 Modern System Reference Document with many elements taken from other games like White Wolf's World of Darkness, Twilight 2000, and Chameleon Eclectic's Millenium's End. Character classes and combat rules are slightly altered from the d20 System, especially the Feat system and Character Classes.

Views of the author(s) and criticism

Opinion varies on whether the anonymous authors are sympathetic to the white nationalist militias or portraying them as an emerging threat. The majority of the articles seem sympathetic towards the militias. Vigilantism, extrajudicial killings and atrocities against Hispanics, African-Americans, Muslims, and corporate executives and elected officials supporting a globalist agenda are often interwoven into storylines and glorified. The articles vary from geo-politics to cultural commentary and travel essays. The work also features fictionalized government documents such as FBI reports, FEMA announcements and a United Nations resolution.